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So they’ve been regurgitating the same thing for twice decades now
Welcome to 21st century journalism! It's all garbage and you shouldn't interact with it.
it’s GBNews
what did you think was going to be the quality of their “reporting”
Speaking to Unilad, he said: “I think people would only really like us doing cars, despite what some people say - ‘Oh, I think you should all go off and do cooking or you should all go and do a podcast about nothing.’
“But I don’t think so, I think we should let it lie, what we did.””
I would love a podcast like the Always Sunny crew have. They started off talking about each episode...for like one episode and just shoot the shit.
But with all that's been hinted at, I feel like they def don't care to get together anytime soon.
I get the impression May's comments sums it up. They work well together doing a car show, something they share an enjoyment of so they have fun doing it. But that doesn't mean they are actually going to be great together on anything else or are that level of friends that the what is irrelevant to it.
I think it's further success of the dynamic they've cultivated. They've been pretty clear that they in-fact don't really like each other but they can use that to their advantage and get absolutely genius results. That on-going tension gets them these headlines which keeps them in the news... and no press is bad press (almost).
I never got the feeling they don’t really like each other but it definitely came across for a long time that they’re people who enjoy working together in a specific environment. But that doesn’t make them actual friends and they don’t socialise or anything outside of that environment.
The other thing that occurred to me, as I was watching an old episode yesterday, is how much May has changed over the years. He’s genuinely different or more pronounced in his grumpy old man hobbyist now to TG times.
I'm just going off of what they've said in interviews. They're colleauges but aren't really close. I'm sure they have a certain friendship and definitely have an affection for each other after all these years.
that's what I was saying. They don't dislike each other but they work together, work well together but just work together. Just like most of us really.
In their 60 Minutes interview they were pretty adamant they don't like each other. Not like Mythbusters levels or anything, but they aren't really friendly at all.
Thats the most light hearted jab at a friend/colleague I’ve ever seen.
Ikr
Reposting these nonsensical stories is exactly what these click bait publishers want you to do. And here we are reading it. Congrats, you got played.
I think the fans of the trio are all pretty well in agreement, the lads don't owe us anything. James is perfectly reasonable as is everything anyone else has said. As far as the 'jab' they've gone much harder on each other on the show itself. I really don't even consider what Clarkson said to be a 'jab'. Media getting a bit desperate for clicks. Nothing new.
Eh, same shit from the same publications that Mythbusters got wrung through as well. "We probably wouldn't work together again" gets turned into "THEY HATE EACH OTHER OMG ALL THE DRAMA!!!" for years after.
One of the things that really made Top Gear/Grand Tour work was that these guys weren't co-workers, colleagues, etc.- you can tell there's a genuine friendship and love for one another, and it comes through more outside the scripted segments than anything. Watch something like how they laugh with each other during the British Leyland Challenge, or the lorry-driving challenge, and you really get a feel for how these guys probably interact when the cameras are off. Compare that with the sentiment these outlets try to promote, and it doesn't line up.
May is probably right. There probably won't be another situation in which the trio are in a show together. None of fthem are getting younger, or healthier for that matter, and continuing to do something as strenuous as TGT is a bit much to ask. That doesn't mean they don't like each other anymore, it means that this has reached its end- and we're better for having had it as long as we did than picking at it in retrospect with articles like this trash.
I’m perfectly fine with them no longer making some new TG of TGT again. They’ve already done so much. And I’m happy with the things they’re doing now on their own.
Why would they work together again. They admitted themselves they are too old for the whole running around in shoddy cars and living in whatever hole they get to that night. The love of cars bought them together and they all understand that. They aren't going to sit around and talked about other crap. It would be bland
I would not mind a spin off where the three try and farm together. James may would still be trying to plant nearly by harvest season. Hammond would be trying to grow tobacco.
Would make for an interesting Clarksons Farm special is they ever do so.
And they can sit in Clarkson's pub to talk about it.
This is what media is now. Scandalizing sounding headlines, often with no context whatsoever to the headline.
But, you clicked on the article. And for much of media now that’s the main and sometimes only goal. Clicks and reads are engagement. Engagement is life blood. Ethics in attaining that engagement are less existent.
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Well, hopefully GBN has been banned in this sub.
OP, you should be ashamed of yourself, if that's where you get your news. Please don't share links to that horrible rag.
I’m here complaining about it. This was somehow at the top of my news feed.
Well, you clicked the link and then tried to share it with other people, so I guess their shitty style of journalism works
Unfortunately
Says the person posting it...
It’s just bullshit click bait headlines that don’t match the story. Same story is posted word for word in lots of places and it’s actually not a swipe it’s the kind of thing he was saying about May for 20 years while they worked together.
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24420009.jeremy-clarkson-takes-another-swipe-james-may-split/
https://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/24420009.jeremy-clarkson-takes-another-swipe-james-may-split/
“Jeremy Clarkson has taken a swipe at James May after rumours of a professional split were confirmed.
The duo presented BBC’s Top Gear alongside Richard Hammond from 2003 to 2015 before reuniting for Prime Video’s The Grand Tour.
Despite enjoying success together, the three celebrities have gone their separate ways professionally with Clarkson finding further global success with his Prime Video documentary Clarkson’s Farm.
Clarkson mentioned James May in a post on social media platform X this week though, making a wry joke about his fellow presenter in a response to a fan.
“Apropos of not much, I just saw a hobby hawk,” said the 64-year-old on Thursday.
“Thought it was just called a Hobby,” asked a fan.
Clarkson responded: “I fear that if I’d said I’d seen a hobby, people might have thought I’d been in James May’s shed.”
May recently revealed that he believes Clarkson, Hammond and himself are unlikely to work together again.
Speaking to Unilad, he said: “I think people would only really like us doing cars, despite what some people say - ‘Oh, I think you should all go off and do cooking or you should all go and do a podcast about nothing.’
“But I don’t think so, I think we should let it lie, what we did.””
The show focuses on life at Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, and is now in its fourth season.